Major music publishers Universal Music, Concord, and ABKCO are seeking a preliminary injunction against AI company Anthropic in their ongoing copyright infringement lawsuit. The publishers claim Anthropic's AI assistant Claude illegally uses their copyrighted song lyrics both in training and outputs.

The publishers' key demands include:

• Implementing guardrails to prevent unauthorized reproduction of lyrics in Claude's responses
• Stopping the use of copyrighted lyrics to train future AI models

The plaintiffs argue Anthropic's actions cause irreparable harm by:

• Denying copyright holders control over their works
• Failing to provide proper attribution
• Creating unauthorized derivative works
• Damaging relationships with licensed partners

Anthropic, which recently received billions in funding from Google, maintains that using protected content as an intermediate step to create non-infringing output constitutes fair use.

Despite ongoing legal battles, the music industry is gradually embracing AI through controlled partnerships. Recent developments include:

• YouTube's launch of "Dream Track" for AI voice recreation in Shorts
• Warner Music's deal with Edith Piaf's estate for AI voice recreation
• Universal Music's expanding AI partnerships and products

The case highlights the growing tension between AI companies and content creators as both sides work to define acceptable use of copyrighted materials in AI development and deployment.

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